Crafts Study Centre

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Telephone

01252 891450

Group visits / Research visits

01252 891452

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The Crafts Study Centre, established in 1970, has an international standing as a unique archive and collection of 20th century British crafts. The Tanner Gallery features work from the Centre's remarkable permanent collection while the Contemporary Exhibitions Gallery shows the work of today's most innovative craft practitioners. Digital images and essays about the collections can be found at http://vads.ac.uk/collections/CSC.html.

Venue Type:

Archive

Opening hours

The Crafts Study Centre is open Tuesday to Friday 10am to 5pm and on Saturday 10am to 4pm.

Admission charges

Free admission

Getting there

By rail London Waterloo to Farnham (via Woking). 15-minute level walk from station.

By bus Stagecoach Bus no. 64 between Guildford and Winchester stops in Farnham Town Centre (The Borough). From The Borough, go west, turn right into The Hart.

By road Drop-off and street parking in front of the Centre; pay & display car parks.

Additional info

The Crafts Study Centre is home to an internationally-recognised collection of modern British craft. We hold inspiring free exhibitions of modern and contemporary craft year round in our two galleries. Our research library is available by appointment.

The Crafts Study Centre's collection embraces ceramics, textiles, calligraphy and wood, accompanied by reference books including makers’ diaries, documents, photographs and craftspeoples’ working notes. The collection includes work by influential figures such as Bernard Leach, Lucie Rie and Hans Coper in ceramics; Ethel Mairet, Phyllis Barron and Dorothy Larcher in woven and printed textiles; and calligraphy by Edward Johnston and Irene Wellington; and furniture by Ernest Gimson and Sidney Barnsley. Much of the collection and archive has been built up from donations and bequests. For example, Bernard Leach gave the Centre nearly one hundred of his pots, together with pieces he had collected in Japan, Korea and China (which influenced his work). He also bequeathed all his papers to the collection (including diaries that documented his time in Japan).